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Xose Miguélez - Contradictio
by Candido Querol, B!ritmos (Spain)
The Galician composer and saxophonist Xose Miguélez is immersed in the presentation of this new album. You told me that you have given enough interviews to be a rather minority music for yours. What do you think is the reason?
I hope it's because the album is being liked a lot. Perhaps also the fact that my previous work, Ontology Origin records, 2019 was well received makes people more receptive to a new work. How are you not starting... read more
David Friesen - This Light Has No Darkness, Volume 1
by Tom Haugen, Take Effect
The multi-instrumentalist David Friesen has a long history in the jazz world, and here along with Paul Lees, Charlie Doggett and Rob Moore he fleshes out 12 tracks orchestrated by Kyle Gordon for a 33 piece orchestra.
"Recovery For Two" starts the listen with a charming dreaminess, where Friesen's well timed bass plucking is met with calm winds and gorgeous strings, and "Motivation" follows with a graceful, cinematic appeal that uses builds... read more
Jessica Williams - Songs of Earth
by Ric Bang, JazzScan
Pianist/composer Jessica Williams is an elite musicians who is so well known that she needs little introductory or background verbiage to inflate reviews of her albums. Like many pianists, she began her studies with the classics and switched to jazz during her teens. Unlike most beginners, however ? who start out playing with unknowns ? Williams was associated with icons from the get-go; her first group was headed by Miles Davis drummer Philly... read more
Pharez Whitted - For the People
by Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz
Indianapolis-born trumpeter Pharez Whitted has kept a low profile in the new millennium. He's busied himself with teaching, attending to his duties as Director of Jazz Studies at Chicago State University, performing live and appearing as a sideman on a scant number of under-the-radar albums, but none of this has helped to boost his reputation beyond his Midwestern home base. His fourteen year silence between Mysterious Cargo (Motown, 1996) and... read more
Mark Taylor - Spectre
by Andrew Gilbert, Seattle Times
By taking his time and letting his music develop at its own pace, Mark Taylor has become one of the essential players on the Seattle jazz scene.
While steadily pursuing his own musical vision, the alto saxophonist has toiled fruitfully as a sideman, contributing to more than half a dozen excellent ensembles. From long-running institutions like the Jim Knapp Orchestra (which plays the first Monday of every month at the Seattle Drum School) to... read more
Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra - Without a Trace
by George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly
Fresh big band charts and deliveries are produced by composer/conductor Scott Reeves as he leads a team that includes all stars Steve Wilson/ss-as-fl and Carolyn Leonhart/voc. The vocalist is featured on a lithe and brassy title track, as Wilson gives an aria alongside Jim Ridi's somber musings on "Incandescence." Reeves shows cleverness as he charts a Latinized "Speak Low" with bright section work and Wilson teaming with Chris Rogers/tp and... read more
Chuck Deardorf - Transparence
by Doug Ramsey, Rifftides
Deardorf's prowess is hardly unknown outside Seattle, even though he rarely leaves the Pacific Northwest. For a quarter-century or more he has been a mainstay of the Seattle scene and a primary on-call bassist for dozens of visiting musicians including Chet Baker, Zoot Sims, George Cables, Art Farmer, Jimmy Rowles and Kenny Burrell. In Transparence, he is out front in a collection that underlines his musicianship, versatility and leadership. The... read more
Mamutrio - Primal Existence
by Erno Elsinga, Jazzenzo (The Netherlands)
Aanvankelijk was het Jesse Dockx die zijn naam aan dit trio verbond, de inmiddels twintigjarige Belgische slagwerker die zijn opleiding aan het Conservatorium van Amsterdam genoot en als een groot belofte geldt. Omgedoopt in Mamutrio, verder bestaand uit landgenoten Piet Verbist (1961) op contrabas en altsaxofonist Lieven Cambré (1968), debuteert het drietal met 'Primal Existence', oeroud bestaan.
Of de albumtitel verwijst naar Verbist... read more
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